Hi, everyone.
Aaron here for Zollotech And today Apple had their spring loaded event with a
bunch of new product announcements.
And many of you were asking me to sort of do a reaction video or talk about what
I thought about the event overall.
And so I thought we'd just have sort of a conversation about what went on,
talk about the release dates and things and what I thought about them overall.
Now the first thing is Apple started off with some services.
They started off with new Apple card services for couples.
So maybe you're a couple,
or you have a spouse that you want to share your credit with your credit card
and build credit history together.
Apple showed that you'll be able to do this soon with Apple card on their
website. They say Apple introduces Apple card family,
enabling people to share Apple card and build credit together.
This allows you not only to do that,
but also to share your card with say someone that's 13 or older in your family.
So you have a child.
You want them to maybe use your card while they're away on a trip at college,
something like that. You'll be able to do that.
Of course they'll have to be responsible and maybe you'll have limits to those.
I'm not sure how Apple will do that, but we should see that very soon.
So they announced that today.
I think this is great for those that have a hard time getting credit.
For example, I think it will be a great way to maybe build credit.
We'll have to see how that works though.
Now Apple also introduced podcast subscriptions today.
Now they're not available yet,
but you did see some huge changes with iOS 14.5 and their podcast app.
They completely redid it.
They added your little icon in the upper right to help you subscribe different
podcasts. And so we should have that soon. So along with that,
you'll have channels and recommendations for new channels. If you're browsing,
for example, you have the Apple event here, as you can see,
but that along with all the different things with iOS 14.5
launches next month.
So we won't see all of the features for podcasts until next month,
14.5 will be out before then, but it's nice to see that.
And you'll be able to subscribe and avoid commercials for example.
So maybe Apple is trying to compete with Spotify and we'll see some changes
there. I'm not sure, but we should have maybe some paid content in podcasts.
We'll have to wait and see what Apple plans to do with that. Now,
other than that, Apple finally announced airtags.
Now we've been waiting for air tags for a long time.
And air tags are something that we saw in the code for a long time.
And a lot of people thought would never actually happen,
but it works pretty seamlessly with find my,
and I think this was the most impressive thing is with an air tag,
what it is if you're not familiar with it is a little tag.
You can put it in a backpack,
maybe on a key chain that helps you locate those things. If you lose them. Now,
if you do lose them, your phone using the find, my app will help you locate it.
And the most impressive thing is in the video,
they showed a demo where it would actually tell you the direction and how far
you were from that little air tag.
So it uses the air tag and it relays back through other people's iPhones
securely and anonymously to tell you where your air tag is actually
located. So I can't wait to try those out.
They're $29 for one and they are $99
for four of them. There's also a bunch of accessories,
such as key chains and things you'll see soon.
So they announced that and we should see those very, very soon.
He uses the Yuan chip set to locate the air tax.
I can't wait to try it out and it'll be helpful maybe to throw in backpacks,
like I said, maybe other places, maybe a jacket or something else. Now,
along with that, Apple also announced a purple iPhone, 12 and 12 mini.
I don't know that it was necessary,
but people obviously like different colors of phones.
So now there's a purple option that will actually be out on the 30th.
You can pre-order it on the 23rd or this Friday. Now they also,
they didn't really announce it in the event,
but there's new spring cases and watch bands.
And I do plan to get some of those if I can. So there's only four new colors,
there's one leather new color. And then one of the slip case, new colors purple,
mostly for the new colors of leather,
but there's those available along with new Apple watch bands.
So those should be out pretty soon for all the different iPhones unfortunately
not iPhone 11, for example, just the new iPhones.
Now something I've been wanting for a long time is a new Apple TV.
My Apple TV starts to feel very slow nowadays,
and it has some bugs from time to time and Apple announced a new Apple TV 4k.
It has the A12 bionic CPU in it. So it's not brand new,
but it's not terribly old. It's basically the same CPU or a variant of the CPU.
That's in my iPad that I have my notes on here and it's very, very fast.
So it's more than capable enough for an Apple TV.
And the nice thing about it is it's not only HDR, of course,
like we would expect, but it also can do 120 Hertz or faster frame rates.
Now it only has 32 and 64 gigabyte storage options like they did before,
basically. And it's one 79 or one 99.
I would have liked to see this a little bit cheaper, 99 or one 49,
but that's the current price. And that's what it's going to be at for a while.
Maybe you'll get it free through your different cable provider or subscription,
something like that in the future. I'm not sure it's just an idea.
But one of the things I thought was really impressive with this is that you can
color calibrate your TV, using your iPhone and the new Apple TV.
You can use your iPhone, put it up to the TV, it helps calibrate it.
And then the Apple TV will adjust to make the picture more accurate,
more like the creator of the movie wanted it to be.
So this is something that a lot of people pay professional calibrators to come
in, calibrate their TVs, or you could do it yourself with different tools.
And now you'll be able to do it with your iPhone.
It'll be really interesting to see what it looks like with maybe compared to a
professional calibration tool as compared to what the iPhone can do with it.
But I can't wait to try that out. And of course,
a lot of people have been wanting a new remote and I haven't really wanted a new
remote, but a lot of people do. And now there's a new Siri remote.
You can actually see what the remote looks like a little bit in iOS 14.5 release
candidate in the control center.
It looks kind of like the older Apple TV remote, but it's larger in the ring on,
it seems to be sort of a scroll wheel, like an iPod. So it that,
and then on the side, it has a Siri button,
very familiar compared to what we have on an iPhone. In fact,
Apple actually mentioned that they have one on the side of the iPhone,
or they said, it's like the Siri button on the side of your iPhone.
So something I look forward to I've wanted a new Apple TV for awhile with new
capabilities,
and that is available for pre-order on the 30th and comes out the second half of
may. In fact,
the next things that I'm going to mention come out the second half of may.
I think they made it, might've had some issues with the supply chain,
or they didn't want to specify a date, but they could get it within that range.
So it comes out then now what they announced kind of surprised a lot of us in
some ways and not some other ways,
but this I think was something I was looking really forward to.
I'm not sure what I think about it.
I want to give it some more time to think about it,
but they announced a new iMac.
Now this new iMac comes in seven different colors and they're very vibrant.
They almost look like they're not real. So I can't wait to see them,
but they're blue, green, pink, silver, yellow, orange, and purple.
And the new iMac is 11.5 millimeters thin.
Now to give you a comparison,
the iPhone 12 pro max is 7.4 millimeters that so incredibly
thin, and maybe with the camera bump, it's about the same thickness.
So incredibly thin it's only 24 inches though.
They didn't announce a larger one. So that kind of disappointed me a little bit,
but it's 24 inches and has a four point 5k display
44, 80 by 25, 20 with a pixel density of 218 pixels per inch,
500 nits of brightness and P three wide color with true tone.
That didn't really surprise me. That's about right for that iMac.
But the one thing that did surprise me is it still has a chin.
I really thought they'd get rid of the chin. In fact,
they show this is where the processor fits and it's the M1 processor.
It's the same CPU. That's in the new Mac book, pro Mac book,
air and Mac mini exact same thing, same specs.
You can get it up to 16 gigs of Ram and two terabytes of storage.
Exactly the same as the Mac book pro, but it has two fans to help keep it cool.
So maybe it can perform a little bit better.
We'll have to wait and see what that,
but the price is actually fairly reasonable to start 1299.
And then it goes up to 1699 with eight cores CPU or GPU
and the 16 core neural network or neural engine. Now with that though,
you can actually add some storage,
which they don't allow you to select currently on their website.
So when you check it out,
maybe it'll be 2199 with two terabytes and more Ram.
We're not really sure yet,
but if it's matching that of the Mac book pro for example,
maybe that's what it will be. Now.
Something else they made a big deal about is it has a 10 ADP camera.
This is a new FaceTime camera that they say is the best on any Mac.
And it's definitely needed on the Mac.
It uses the M1 CPU to sort of make the image better overall.
And I'm glad they did that.
It also has a six speaker stereo system or stereo speakers with force canceling
woofers.
Now this is the same sort of technology we have in the MacBook pro and they
sound incredible.
So I wouldn't really expect them to sound any less incredible on this iMac.
So along with that, it also has studio quality mics and supports. Hey,
when you ask for the assistance. So you can use that if you want to use that,
now, something they changed that I don't think is necessarily a bad thing.
Some people I've seen commenting saying they thought it was bad,
but they've moved the power supply outside of the iMac.
And what they've done is given you a little sort of power supply similar to
that, of a Mac book, but also incorporated the ethernet port directly into that.
Now this isn't necessarily a bad thing because if the power supply goes bad,
you can just buy another plug. And then also it keeps your wires out of the way,
instead of running all the way up to the iMac, for example.
So I kind of liked that idea and then it magnetically adheres to the back of the
iMac, kind of like MagSafe for example.
So that's something I really like that idea.
It keeps it very clean behind the desk, no wires, just one wire,
unless you're plugging things into the ports and there's four different ports.
So there's two USB normal USB C type ports.
And then two of them are Thunderbolt and that's allowed by the M1.
So I think the M1 only allows for two Thunderbolt ports.
So Thunderbolt three USB four,
and you have those as your only plug in ports on the back.
So no SD card or anything like that.
So you'll need a dock for that or some attachment, for example.
So it has all of those things and it's available to pre-order at the 30th
and it comes out the second half of may. So I'm not sure what color to get.
I do like the idea of it. I'm very surprised about the chin on the bottom of it,
but maybe we'll see a 30 inch one at WWDC.
Maybe we'll see something a little bit larger and a pro version of that with
more Ram and, and maybe more powerful CPU.
I would expect something along those lines for the pros very soon.
At least I hope so. That's only about a month and a half away.
Something I almost forgot to mention is the new keyboards that come with the
iMac. The iMac has all of these color matched keyboards,
as well as colors matched magic mouse or magic mice.
It has all of the color match ones, but it also has the option for touch ID.
You can upgrade to touch ID or a touch ID on a numeric keyboard,
and you now have that option.
It's something I've wanted for a long time on the bigger Macs,
Mac pro or all those things. And we finally have it on the iMac.
Hopefully we'll be able to buy an accessory, maybe one that we can pair,
but that may require a separate chip inside.
So I think that was pretty exciting. That's something I've wanted for a while,
but why we don't have face ID that kind of baffles me a little bit.
We have it on the iPad,
but we don't have it on the iMac or something that definitely has the room for
those cameras. So maybe it will be on the pro we'll have to wait and see. Now,
along with the iMac,
the last thing Apple introduced was the new iPad and the new iPad is well.
They announced two of them in 11 inch and 12.9 inch,
just like we have now with some significant hardware upgrades,
but the major upgrade goes to the 12.9 inch.
It gets a new mini led backlit display that they're calling liquid retina
XDR.
So that's the new display and it goes super bright and
should be really impressive for HDR. Now,
the other thing that was a bit of a surprise is it has Apple's new M1 chip set
inside of it and can get 16 gigs of Ram up to two terabytes of storage,
basically what you get with a Mac book pro. Now, if you buy the top of the line,
you can go all the way up to those. So you've got all of those things,
as well as Thunderbolt on the bottom.
Now the 11 inch gets all the other things except the mini led display,
but you have all of those options and silver space gray as well as 5g
support, and then Apple touted pro cameras. Now the camera's on the backer,
very similar, but the pro camera on the front is a new ultra-wide camera,
12 megapixel, 122 field of view degree, field of view.
And it keeps you centered. If maybe you're on a conference call, for example,
it uses the neural engine to sort of follow you around.
If someone else walks into the frame, it will follow you there.
We've seen this before with say Microsoft connect, for example.
So these are things we've seen before.
And I think this is very welcome on an iPad for conference calls,
but it's odd to see this on an iPad and not a Mac book pro for example,
it seems like all the new features come to iPad first and then to maybe iPhone
and Mac. So that was a bit of a surprise.
So all of those things are coming to the iPad along with a white magic keyboard.
So you have the option for a white magic keyboard now, and again,
pre-order is the 30th available on the second half of may. So M1,
they had a very entertaining thing where Tim cook sort of snuck into the Mac
labs, stole the M1 CPU and put it on the iPad. So that was great.
If you haven't seen that, I'd definitely recommend watching the keynote.
And I think out of all of these things, my favorite thing is the iMac.
I was a little bit surprised.
I'm a little disappointed because of the chin on the iMac,
but I don't know that it will be that much of a problem.
I can't wait to try it out and see what it's like.
But if you already have say an M1 Mac book air pro,
just by a monitor at this point,
unless you want that seamless sort of hardware experience,
all of those colors are really nice,
but I'm looking forward to maybe a larger version at WWDC or something like
that. Maybe we'll see some Mac pros there for the first time or iMac pro.
So I'm looking forward to that. And this event was huge.
All of these things are great. The Apple TV will be very welcome.
I can't wait to try them all out, but we do have to wait a little bit.
Let me know what you enjoyed the most out of the event.
What you look forward to most,
if you're picking any of these things up and iOS 14.5,
if you haven't already seen this, it comes out next week.
So the release candidate came out today after the announcement,
and then the final version comes out next week at some point.
So we'll have 14.5 coming out. If you're not buying any new hardware,
at least you'll get that software upgrade as well.
If you'd like to get your hands on this wallpaper though,
of course I'll link it in the description like I normally do.
And if you haven't subscribed already, please subscribe.
And if you enjoyed the video, please give it a like as always.
Thanks for watching. I'll see you next time.